latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
6
Houses
2
Last sold
81 days ago
Bowmore 1989 23 Year Old Port Cask is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bowmore aged 23 years. Based on 6 recorded auction lots across 5 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £270, with the most recent sale at £330. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £190 (low) to £330 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bowmore 1989 23 Year Old Port Cask is £304–£356 (±8% around the latest sale).
Bowmore is a whisky distillery. Bowmore 1989 23 Year Old Port Cask is an age-stated bottling at 23 years old, distilled in 1989.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1989), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Age statement
A 23-year age statement signals extended maturation, which limits how much was ever bottled.
Named / limited release
Released as caskport, a named edition rather than part of the standard core range.
These are scarcity and demand signals drawn from the bottle's own attributes — they describe the bottle, not a prediction of future price. Not investment advice.
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Latest sale
£330
24-month median
£270
24-month high
£330
24-month low
£190
Estimated value · likely range
£304–£356 ±8%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Rare at auctiononly a handful of lots a year
Seen at auction
4 lots
Cadence
≈ every 91 days
Trend
▼ 20% vs prior year
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 22% of tracked bottles
Last seen
81 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£244
Median hammer price blended across every recorded sale at all 2 auction houses below — a single figure that smooths house-to-house variation.
| Auction house | Price points | Latest hammer | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotch Whisky Auctions | 48 | £250 | £244 |
| Whisky Hammer | 6 | £330 | £255 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | £330 | 1 |
| April 2026 | £190 | 2 |
| June 2025 | £240 | 1 |
| February 2022 | £270 | 1 |
| November 2021 | £270 | 1 |
More from Bowmore
Bowmore 1989 23 Year Old Port Cask appeared in 4 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That is down 20% on the previous year. It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 22% by auction activity among the 29,829 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Bowmore 1989 23 Year Old Port Cask at auction is £330. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £270, with a high of £330 and a low of £190. All prices are in GBP and exclude buyer's premium. Data is aggregated from major auction houses including Scotch Whisky Auctions, Whisky Auctioneer, and Bonhams.
wsky1 currently has fewer than 12 months of auction data for Bowmore 1989 23 Year Old Port Cask, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £190 to £330 (median £270).
Bowmore 1989 23 Year Old Port Cask regularly appears at major Scotch whisky auction houses including Scotch Whisky Auctions (Scotland), Whisky Auctioneer (Scotland), Just Whisky, Whisky Hammer, and Bonhams. The current median hammer price is £270 (excluding buyer's premium). At most major houses, buyer's premium adds 24–28% on top of hammer for the buyer; sellers typically receive the hammer price minus a sales commission of 5–15%.
Bowmore 1989 23 Year Old Port Cask has appeared in 6 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £270. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice.
wsky1 ingests public auction results from major auction houses (via direct scraping of Scotch Whisky Auctions, Whisky Auctioneer, Bonhams, and Whisky Hammer, plus aggregated data from WhiskyHunter). For each bottle, we group hammer prices by year-month and compute the median price per month. The figures shown — latest £330, 24-month median £270 — are derived from this monthly-median methodology. All prices are hammer prices in GBP, excluding buyer's premium.
No. All prices on wsky1 are hammer prices only. Buyer's premium at major Scotch whisky auction houses currently runs at 24–28% on top of the hammer price. A bottle of Bowmore 1989 23 Year Old Port Cask that hammers at £330 would cost the buyer approximately £416 all-in including buyer's premium.
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